The SOULS OF ERGOS saga is a sinuous, multi-layered tale centred around two men, two worlds, and a bizarre twist of cosmic duality. Both men rousted by Fate, both displaced by undeflectable circumstance onto foreign spheres, each finds himself striving to remain grounded amid the peril of unfamiliar terrains and hostile peoples while simultaneously trying to unriddle the mystery behind their intersidereal abductions. With one protagonist stranded on contemporary earth, and the other on mediaeval Ergos, their respective existences come down to an ability to brave the travels and travails born of faithworthy comrades, of treacherous situations, and of the handful of gradually-manifesting mystical abilities that threaten to make both men unwillingly unique to their surrogate worlds. (Taken from the author's site)

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

"the first step is the last step"Drawing and Digital, 5/2011This piece was made for a show in Kobe called Transitions, and had this statement attached:"My own impending transitions: After living in Japan for 4 years, I will be going back to the U.S. to live and work in a place that will be both familiar and strange at the same time. I thought of someone getting ready to take a risky, if necessary leap. One that, even with ample preparation, can still inspire that *oh shit* feeling of being on the edge of something - the feeling of that last step before there's nothing familiar to stand on anymore."

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